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Robot tail developed to balance out human body and stop people from falling over
The strap-on appendage, known as Arque, has been developed by researchers at Keio University in Japan.
[...] The tail can be be adjusted to fit whoever is wearing it by adding or removing modular "vertebrae", the Fast Company reports .
Small weights can also be inserted inside each vertebrae to help offset the wearer's weight.
[...] Artificial muscles inside the robotic tail control its movement by contracting and expanding using an external pressurised air system that resembles a lawn mower or giant vacuum.
Because the prototype tail has to remain tethered to this system, the wearer is not able to move very far using it.
[...] The tail was presented last week at the 2019 SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles , which focuses on graphics, gaming, and emerging technology.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday August 07 2019, @02:04PM (2 children)
Similar but different. While the article touts the uses for this thing on earth, I'm thinking, "With a little plumage, it might help people in weightless conditions too!" Oh yeah, baby, shake that thang!
I've got to fault them for placement, though. The thing attaches to you, just above the small of the back, it seems. Doesn't quite look natural. They need to go lower, 3 to 5 vertebra, and get that tailbone. THAT is where the weight should be supported from.
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(Score: 2) by driverless on Thursday August 08 2019, @02:27AM (1 child)
I tried to post a link to an even earlier video of a girl with a strap-on appendage but for some reason it was blocked. Not sure what it was called, they didn't mention the name Arque but I heard a name similar to that hobbit from LoTR come up once.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday August 08 2019, @01:47PM
Now, why would they call it a Baggins?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.